# Kennedy Middle School

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `173451003394`
- **School name**: Kennedy Middle School
- **Location**: Rockford, IL 61101
- **Address**: 520 N Pierpont Ave
- **District**: Rockford SD 205 (LEAID `1734510`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.28295, -89.13745
- **Phone**: (815)654-4880

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 393
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 30
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 90.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: IL Report Card
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Intensive
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: Intensive

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (IL Report Card)**: 32.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 101.0% (486 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 23
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 10.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 67.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 14.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 8.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 23.5% — 113 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 72 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Autism**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,207
- **Federal share**: $3,054
- **State + local share**: $23,153
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $21,458,258
- **Federal share**: 13.0%
- **State share**: 49.1%
- **Local share**: 38.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,279,046

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $34,148
- **Poverty rate**: 25.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 14.6%
- **Unemployment**: 11.8%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,104
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 3.5 miles (INTERSTATE POLLUTION CONTROL INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 68
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.41 miles (ABANDONED AUTO REPAIR FACILITY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROCKFORD
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 7.36768 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **McIntosh Elementary** — 0.1 mi away, 88.56% (this school: 101.04%)
- **Auburn High School** — 0.3 mi away, 77.13% (this school: 101.04%)
- **Galapagos Rockford Charter Sch** — 0.5 mi away, 42.56% (this school: 101.04%)
- **Ellis Elementary School** — 1.3 mi away, 86.88% (this school: 101.04%)
- **Barbour Two-Way Lang Immersion** — 2.1 mi away, 20.14% (this school: 101.04%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford
- **Performance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.il.whatschool.ai/en/il/school/kennedy-middle-school-rockford/workforce

---
*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*